Script Right - Video Screenwriting Tips
Even the best videomakers often balk at writing scripts.
Take my friend Mike Axelrod. A computer programmer since graduating from college, Mike recently quit work to return to school.
As a film buff who's created a few videos with friends, he decided to combine his two interests and major in computer animation. He signed up for a required screenwriting course and experienced no difficulty in writing individual scenes three to five pages long.
Then he learned the second half of the course required completion of a screenplay for a fifteen-minute film, fifteen to twenty pages in length. The news left him pale.
"Fifteen to twenty pages! I'll never write something that long," he howled. "I'm not a writer!"
Well, maybe not. But good video begins with good writing. In this piece I hope to show how even non-writers like Mike can put together a serviceable scree…
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